SQL Server 2012 Data Mining add-in for Excel 2010 Released

Another release that went without much trumpeting was the SQL Server 2012
Data Mining add-in for Excel 2010.  This has...

SQL Server Database Mirroring (Not Dead Yet)

SQL Server Database Mirroring is a high availability and disaster recovery feature that was added to the product with SQL...

Windows Server 8 Hyper-V Lab boot from VHD

Windows Server 8 Hyper-V Lab boot from VHD

Windows Server 8 Beta is out, check this video to use existing windows laptop/desktop to build VHD bootable Windows server...

Windows Server 8 Hyper-V Lab boot from VHD

Windows Server 8 Hyper-V Lab boot from VHD

Windows Server 8 Hyper-V Lab boot from VHD

Choosing the Right Microsoft Reporting Technology Part 2: Excel

This post is a continuation of a series started to help you understand each of the Microsoft presentation layer tools...

Configure Anti-Virus on your SQL Server

This week I had an application team report the error “SQL Connection Lost”.  Fortunately they also reported the exact times...

Date Dimension Script with Fiscal Year

One dimension you can be positive will always make it’s way into your data warehouse is the Date dimension.  Over...